Okay, so I fell off the horse. Hard.
I didn't post up anything on Facebook about this whole thing but I will go into a bit of detail here. Last week wasn't a fun week at ALL.
The weekend was full of yard work...mulching flower beds, trimming trees, and generally just cleaning up things that were WAY overdue. Saturday (8/25) was a great family day. We bought some new flowers and spent the day doing the yard work together. Saturday night we all fell asleep feeling tired from a good days work.
Sunday morning I woke up around 7am and was starting the day while waiting for the kids to get up. Riley was the first to rise about 9:30 with Owen following about 9:45. Riley was complaining about a stomach ache and said she had some nausea. I gave her some pepto and told her to drink plenty of water . At this point, I was thinking that she was suffering from pre-menstrual upset stomach. (She's really new to her menses and isn't familiar with all the wonders that come with it every month.... I really hope you sense my sarcasm with that statement by the way...) So for the most part throughout the day, she ate a little here and there and would just tell me it wasn't getting any better.
Hubby and I went out and finished what yard work we needed to get done and just had Riley relaxing in the house.
Riley ate a few bites at dinner but by this point in the late evening I could see she really felt a whole lot worse. Then about 9:30pm I noticed she had spiked a fever. Insert Mom-Panic mode here... but I did my best not to freak yet. I gave her 2 ibuprofen to see if it brought down her temp but after 45 minutes and a degree jump... I had her get dressed and I whisked her off to the local ER.
Now, side note... I'm not going to go into the full disclosure of the debacle that ensued... but just know that from around 11:50pm Sunday Night until around 10:45 am Monday Morning, Riley and I had been to 2 hospitals and were getting loaded into an Ambulance for transport to our 3rd...with the diagnosis of Appendicitis.
So, with it all said and done, Riley didn't get to sleep until about 2pm when they put her under general anesthesia to remove her appendix. I was awake a little longer... until about 7pm... and then I crashed til around 10pm when she woke up hungry for the first time after her surgery.
I was blessed enough to be able to take the week off of work to stay with her. Once they diagnosed her with appendicitis, they weren't sure if it had perforated or started to rupture. When they got it out, the area around it was covered in white cells which they thought meant it had perforated. But they couldn't find a site on the appendix that was leaking. Thankfully... it was on the brink of perforation but they got it in the nick of time. Because if it had a site of perforation that meant 3 more days in the hospital on IV antibiotics for her. As it was, she had quite a few restrictions on what she can/can't do.
But I'm back in the saddle... with a severely bruised behind but plenty of determination. The kids start back to school tomorrow for their first day and I go back to work. (Which I've missed...if I'm being honest) So it's a week of fresh starts!
Expect me to start posting my daily walks/exercises again!
XO,
CQ
